Coexisting massive and massless Dirac fermions in symmetry-broken bilayer graphene

Nature Materials

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 887-892

  Kim, Keun Su ^a,b   Walter, Andrew L ^c   Moreschini, Luca ^a   Seyller, Thomas ^d   Horn, Karsten ^b   Rotenberg, Eli ^a   Bostwick, Aaron ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b FRITZ HABER INSTITUT DER MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT   (Germany)

^c DONOSTIA INTERNATIONAL PHYSICS CENTER DIPC   (Spain)

^d CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVICE APPLICATION; ELECTRONIC INTERACTIONS; ELECTRONIC SPECTRUM; MASSLESS DIRAC FERMIONS; STRONG ELECTRIC FIELDS; STRUCTURAL DISTORTIONS; SYMMETRY-BREAKING; TRANSVERSE ELECTRIC FIELD;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; ELECTRONS;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84884571286     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3717     Document Type: Review

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